Have you read the 1949 book by George R. Stewart called Earth Abides? Have you seen the recent television series that mangles the thrust of the story beyond recognition? Maybe you’d like to read it before listening to the podcast episode(s) in which Alex Leff—creator of the excellent Human Nature Odyssey podcast series—and I discuss the book and what we might learn about generational adaptation to modernity’s eventual up-ending. Spoiler alert: we make no effort to protect future readers from core developments.

This is a two-part conversation, the first of which was released yesterday, and the second on April 23.

This book was recommended to me by legendary astrophysicist Frank Shu, and while pretty hokey in some ways—exercising the cringe muscle group—it offers deeply valuable lessons in other respects that have stuck with me. Anyway, it was fun to chat about the themes in the book with Alex, and I hope you enjoy the conversation as well.

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